Improved tube-cutting machine



itil-titled 'I tate I SAMUEL HALLIWELL, CF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 96,912, lated November 16, 1869.

IMPROVED TBE-CUTTING- MACHINE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same same, and which said drawings constitute part ot' this speeitieation, and represent, in

Figure l, a side view;

Figure 2, a top view; and in Figure. 3, a longitudinal section, illustrating the operation of the machine.

.This invention relates to al1 improvement i'n machine for cutting off tubing, the object being to cut so that the parts cut oli" will'fall from the machine wit-hout removing the principal tubing therefrom, as is the ease in tube-cutting machines as heretotbre constructed; and

The invention consists in the arrangement of a revolving mandrel, over which the tube to be `out is placed, combined with a rotating cutter, operating in connection with the said mandrel, so as to form a shear-edge, and provided with suitable guides, to govern the length of the cuttings.

This invention is designed, more particularly for cutting tin tubing, for the manufacture of spice-boxes, but is alike applicable to other purposes.

A is the bed of the machine, supported upon suitable legs, or otherwise.

B is a mandrel, arranged in suitable bearings, C, and caused to revolve by tl'ie'application of power thereto, through the pulley l).

E is an arbor, which revolves in connection with the mandrel B, by means of gears a.

The arbor E is lnmg in a bearing at F, the other bearing, G, being arranged so as to be raised up and down, or moved to or from the mandrel, by means of a treadle, H, arranged here so as to be pressed down by the connection ot' the said treadle to a level', I, and raised by `a spring, d, when freed from the depression ofthe treadle.

Upon the end ot' the arbol` E, a cutter', Il, is arranged, and a shoulder, j', is formed on the mandrel 13, so that the said shoulder and cutter, revolving together, form a rotating. shear. ,lhere'ore, when the tubing is placed upon the mandrel B, as denoted in the drawings, and the cutter brought down on to the tubing, the-tubing and mandrel revolving together, will ent the tubing oii'at that point.

'llo'govern the length of the tubing to be cut, I arrange a guide, N, in a slide, P, operated by a lever, 1t, and with a collar, n, on Itho slide, adjustable so as' to govern the position of the guide N. t

After the tube is put on to the mandrel, the guide N is brought up, by means of the lever R, to the desired point, determined by the position of the collar n, then the tubing on the mandrel is drawn out unltil it strikes the guide N, then the cutter is brought down on to, and so as to eut the tubing, as before den scribed.

A slide, S, is arranged upon the mandrel, by means of which to move the` tubing forward, and prevent its being forced back during the process of cutting.

I claim, as my invention- The revolving mandrel B, constructed with the shonlderf, combined with the revolving arbor E, provided with the cutter L, and with the guide N, and collars s n, arranged so as to govern the length of the cuts, the whole constructed and-operating in the manner described.

SAMUEL HALLIXVELL.

Witnesses: J. H. SnUMwnY. MICHAEL RYAN. 

